"I was an outcast in the world."

"What is there in our nature that is forever urging us on towards pain and misery?"

"We never do what we wish when we wish it, and when we desire a thing earnestly, and it does arrive, that or we are changed, so that we slide from the summit of our wishes and find ourselves where we w…"

"We are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, kinder, better than ourselves, do not take us in hand."

"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change."